My perfectly good mood was ruined by a cranky old self-righteous bastard at a gas station in Connecticut. I had unloaded the car at my parents' house and went down to one of the local gas stations to fill up the tank before heading back to Boston. The station is set up so that there's two rows of islands, with three islands in each row. It makes for four "lanes," two of them in the middle and one each on the outsides. I pulled into the station in the entrance and saw that all the pumps were taken, and I'd either have to wait or do some fancy finagling to turn around so my tank latch faced the pump. Then I noticed on the far inside lane, someone was pulling out on the end, so I quickly dashed around the station so I'd be able to back in and I saw that all three cars were pulling straight through so I felt better about taking the last pump -- I wouldn't be blocking anyone in. All three cars left the station, I pulled around and put the car in reverse to back in towards the pump. This godawful old man in a huge-ass Ford station wagon pulls into the back of the lane and barrels down to take the last pump, effectively blocking me out. I blew my horn and he waved his hand at me. I was damn pissed, especially since there were two open pumps behind him that he went right past in order to block me out.

Luckily, another pump had opened up so I went back around the station and pulled up to the new pump. Then I went over to the guy and let him have it. I was yelling at him about how rude he was and how it was my pump and what business did he have blocking me? He started yelling back about how it's a one-way (it's not) and when I asked him where does it say one way only, he pointed me towards the signs that say "entrance" and "exit." Well, great, old man -- one side is for entering and one side is for exiting. Does that mean the station is one-way? No! Does that give him the right to be a prick? No! Especially since I did use the entrance to come into the station.

Either way, at that point, it wasn't worth it so I just walked away. But it really made me pissed to think that someone would seriously go so much out of their way to inconvenience someone else just because they thought they were in the right. All I can say is, he better come to a complete stop at every stop sign, never speed and obey all traffic laws perfectly in order to be Mr. Gas Station Cop.